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Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad.
Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Check you have the correct speech and language packs installed for your region. That's the usual issue if you can get Cortana in your country.
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What did you Canucks do to deserve such mistreatment?
Oh yeah, you gave us Alanis Morissette.
She is enough to cancel out all that Rush and BTO gave to us.
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And Justin Bieber 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada...
Okay, you made me Google it (not Bing - ha ha).
According to this[^] and this[^] you can...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I wonder why Canada (i.e. Canadian people) has so much limitations (Quebec overall)...
I was twice there (BC) and I felt in love for that country...
US are envy, maybe?
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What's even more laughable is that BC is a short ferry ride away from the Microsoft HQ.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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I'd wager it has something to do with the law differences between countries. In this case, I would immediately assume there are differences in privacy laws since Cortana is doing a lot of listening and transmitting of personal or in-home communication.
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Gonna love even more Canada (and less Cortana) 
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Cortana isn't available 'cause they can't get the accent down right. It keeps saying abowt instead of aboot.
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Also, because it was too difficult to get the voice recognition engine to filter out all the "eh"s.
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Yeah, probably Cortana's French isn't good enough.
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I've had some weird resolution issues, but I guess that's what I get for having a 4K monitor... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I needed a monitor, and it was on sale. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Doesn't seem to work with multiple monitors: I have 5 on a 6 monitor display card, working fine on Win 8.1 After upgrade can only see/enable two of them. Had to revert to 8.1.
On tablet/laptop hybrid: works well, but annoying that selection of WiFi networks has become more difficult (more clicks, not all settings in one place), also that number of recently used items takes more space for far fewer. Likewise, icons in system tray take more room, and often disappear entirely, only coming back after resizing tray.
Quite difficult to switch to desktop mode (no tile!) when in tablet mode and you want to keep hybrid in tablet shape but work on desktop (hybrid is a Yoga so can be used with KVM in tent shape - win 10 doesn't allow for this despite such configs being possible with the Surface!)
Seems impossible to organise tiles properly on new start menu, so I'm going to revert to classic shell.
Only serious problem so far: breaks Google Sync for Outlook, which has to be reinstalled.
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Had to revert to 8.1.
Ouch.
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I'd like to add a few annoyance regarding the new start menu:
0) The left pane is not wide enough and can't be resized. Both my SQL Server 2008r2 and 2014 simply show up as 'Microsoft SQL Server 20..'. I've now pinned them to the right-side 'tile' start menu and to the taskbar to get around it, still I have other programs like multiple VS where I can't see which is which.
1) Pinning to the start menu is confusing and only seemed to take effect after a reboot.
2) Removing an item from the list of 'Recently added' doesn't remove the item immediately and sometimes not at all.
I still like it better than 8, but not as much as 7.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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0) Can you not just rename the shortcuts to 'MS SQL etc.' or am I missing something?
1) No it isn't and no it doesn't ... on my desktop at least!
2) Dunno. Haven't felt the need to do it.
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No, you cannot rename them. In fact, right-click has no effect at all, there's not context menu. The whole All Apps list is built on a database rather than the file system like in the past (what's even worse is the fact that this database is limited to 512 entries, so if you got a lot of programs installed, with links and subfolders, some of them might not show up at all).
This start menu is a joke.
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Actually it's a bit more complicated than that ...
Folders on the all apps list have no context menu and cannot be renamed (or can they? *)
MS 'universal' apps have a limited context menu (pin/unpin) and cannot be renamed (or can they? **)
Individual shortcuts have an extended context menu and can be renamed by going to file location and simply doing it the old fashioned way.
Individual shortcuts can be moved out of a folder (found in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs) and will then take their place in the alphabetical listing accordingly. If the folder is left empty after this move it will no longer show on the All Apps list. So ....
* Yes they can! If you rename the empty folder and then drag all the shortcuts back into it it will reappear on the All Apps list in the correct alphabetical place according to its new name.
** Well, no they can't! but there's only so much good news a man can hand on in a day!
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